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the study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places
“The Why of Where”
in one word: Experience |
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One of the two major divisions or geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes.
How a culture evolves, spreads, and interacts. (Connect)
Religion, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, food
Halfbacks, the J factor. From N.E. to FL to Carolinas
Economy, family, weather can affect population
Cultural adaptation
McDonalds cant sell burgers in India, so they sell veggie burgers or chicken |
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The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The processes of globalization transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across
“The world becoming flatter?
Interconnection
Massive diffusion
Similar world
Dependency
Sooooo old! People interacting with people!!
Silk road
Roll a snowball down a hill, makes a HUUGE SNOW BOULDER! |
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One of the two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, process, and location of the earth’s natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography.
Layers
Physical panorama or landscape
Building built on top of buildings
Some survive, others don’t
King of garbage looks at garbage in landfills
When something was popular and suck can be told by trash. |
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Pertaining to space on the Earth’s surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic.
Arrangement of place and phenomena
Why of where!? |
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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.
Location! Location! Location!
American settled from east, west, middle |
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The design of a spatial distribution (e.g. scattered or concentrated)
Connections
Jews moving to America
Being forced out of many areas
Persecution
Even pattern with living
Most people have always lived on the coast
Pattern on housing
Triple decker, weird apartment like building in new England, mainly Massachusetts
Disease: studying swine flu |
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| The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. Among other things, medical geography looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions. |
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| An outbreak of disease that spreads worldwide. (Endemic) |
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A disease that is particular to a locality or region.
Can lead to pandemic: black plague |
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| Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space. |
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| Developed by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project (GENIP), the five themes of geography are location, human-environment, region, place, and movement. |
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The first theme of geography as defined by the GENIP; the geographical situation of people and things.
Where in the "Why of Where?" |
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| A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. The agricultural location theory contained in the von Thunen model is a leading example. |
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